Simon Haïm Skira, secretary general of the French Federation of Moroccan Judaism (FFJM) will run in the upcoming regional elections in Casablanca. This announcement was made by Abdellatif Ouahbi , secretary general of the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM).
Alex Lasry, son of Marc Lasry, an American billionaire born into a Jewish-Moroccan family from Marrakech, is a candidate in the 2022 Senate elections. He aims to win the position of Senator for Wisconsin.
The coordination of representatives of political parties abroad deplores the absence of voting rights and representation of Moroccans in the diaspora in the draft law amending the organic law relating to the House of Representatives. Rights that have nevertheless been claimed.
The Party for Justice and Development (PJD) made a curious proposal during the consultations on the electoral law. The party of the lamp wishes to postpone the elections to February 2022, thus provoking the wrath of the opposition and the majority.
Insecurity and the Islamization of Catalonia. These are the two main themes developed by the far-right party VOX during this election campaign. The party does not miss any opportunity to feed its electorate with figures that are far from reality.
On the sidelines of this year’s elections in Morocco, the Institute of Social and Media Studies (IESM) conducted a survey to find out Moroccans’ views on the political class. The results of this survey, carried out on a sample of 875 women and men aged 18 and over, show that they are only very slightly interested in politics.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants King Mohammed VI ’s visit to Israel to take place before the next elections. A political strategy that should allow him to capture the vote of Jews of Moroccan origin.
Moroccans residing abroad must exercise their constitutional rights to be voters and eligible in elections within the framework of full citizenship. This concern was at the heart of the discussions between Nizar Baraka, Secretary General of the Istiqlal Party, and representatives of the Coordination of Moroccan Political Parties Abroad, last Wednesday, at the party’s headquarters in Rabat.
The city of Imintanout has swung in favor of the Party of Authenticity and Modernity (PAM), which has soundly beaten the Party of Justice and Development (PJD) and the other parties that participated in the by-elections. The Islamist party thus definitively loses the municipality.
As the electoral deadlines are fast approaching, it is the vigil of arms within the political parties. The market for political transhumance will be very lively. The RNI of Aziz Akhannouch seems better equipped to take full advantage of this "winter transfer window of political parties".
The Court of Cassation has just canceled the election of Imane Sabir from the Party of Justice and Development (PJD) as president of the urban commune of Mohammedia . Her party is by no means defeated, and intends to face the RNI who rather sees its hour come to recover the seat that had been "stolen" from it.
In the perspective of the 2021 elections, the Party of Justice and Development (PJD) is deploying strategies to capture the electorate of mosque leaders. Civil society has sent a petition to King Mohammed VI to denounce this act.